Nigeria’s chess star, Master Oluwafemi Balogun, who won the recent West African tourney in Liberia, has been drawn to play against current world champion, Magnus Carlsen at forthcoming Chess World Cup slated to hold in Georgia next month

According to the Nigeria Chess Federation, this will be the first time an African will get the opportunity to play a reigning champion at the world tourney.

The body noted that the chess World Cup is a knockout tournament of two classical games, which, according to the terminology of chess, if the game is drawn, it goes to two rapid games and if drawn again moves to two blitz games.

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